Int'l agencies support family planning

Int'l agencies support family planning

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Four international agencies are providing aid to support the implementation of family planning and population programs in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) thus year, the provincial planned parenthood board has announced in Palu.

The international agencies involved are the UN Family Planning and Population Agency (UNFPA), Australia's aid agency AUSAID, America's USAID and Germany's JTZ, which make available contraceptives to family planning participants in the region.

UNFPA, which last year also provided aid to NTT, guaranteed a supply of pills and injection ampules for the first quarter of this year, in view of the many dropouts among users of the two methods.

According to the provincial planned parenthood coordinating board (BKKBN) in Kupang, the foreign agencies extend their aid to the region in connection with the implementation of decentralization and regional autonomy, in which the central BKKBN delegates its authority to regional offices. --Antara